The deactivation or shutdown of a virtual machine instance within a cloud infrastructure. This action typically involves stopping a running instance, which halts its operation and releases certain associated resources, such as CPU and memory. Examples:
instance.stop events recorded in GCP Audit Logs indicate the deactivation of an instance.StopInstances actions in AWS CloudTrail indicate EC2 instances being stopped.Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/deallocate or stop events in Azure Activity Logs represent a virtual machine being stopped or deallocated.| Name | Channel |
|---|---|
| AWS:CloudTrail | TerminateInstances |
| AWS:CloudTrail | StopInstances |